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was this idea of crossed into canyon since last year. i last saw a laptop village in somalia, when her grandchildren died because she had no food to keep the scouting twinkie live in the midst of binding on goat skin. and while to keep in this stretch, we can't even get that. most of the people who are coming to this area are not registered as rest yet. so they are struggling to survive. they have very little what top and the sees the longest dry spouse for the strengthening alliances. china is president place host to a range of central asia nations to boost trade and security across the region. the
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i'm typically disassembled to say or live from doha. also coming up incredible as president t i'm or less or dissolves holloman's and closed early elections and a bit to avoid being ousted from office for elections. phone tools from phone will talk a study prime minister and run con, telling al jazeera he and his suppose as a being politically target has an admission to most within 10 years. and that's outlines that st. bushes plan to see the humans to the rid plans. the china is present and shooting, paying is hosting an unprecedented summit with the latest of 5 central asian nations. it's coinciding with the g 7 summit in japan. the to day. amazing. involves cause expand curtis done projects done to administer on, and whose biggest on let's go live to jessica washington. who is an shannon
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a just go what can we expect over the next 2 days? well this is a hugely important not only for china, this is central asia as well defensive. it's kind, it's happening here in c on a very symbolic location. is the starting point for the silk road, the historical trade route that went through central asia. so this, the summit is very much in line with a theme that we've seen in china is diplomacy of trying to strengthen its diplomatic ties with central asia. we saw just a few months ago. that's presidents, aging pins, 1st, international trip, as since the pandemic was because accent, and then a few days later in the 2nd son. and that's very much a theme that we've seen in china is a lot of times trying to strengthen its alliances in the region. and from the perspective of central asia, this is very much an opportunity to strengthen those trade and investment opportunities with china. very much in the context of what is happening in ukraine . noting that as most goes capacity for trade and the investment and it's region
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way and as it, as it pulls resources into the warren, ukraine feels economic impact of sanctions at that, that is a must have to look for opportunities elsewhere. and as we also talk about this relationship between china and russia as being very much a strong relationship, but certainly in a symmetrical one, where we see that china is influence is growing. and most of those influence is waning, and also with melting. as you mentioned, that is something that takes place in the same week as the g 7 summit. so what we see with this summit diplomacy, this sort of power low summit diplomacy from china is perspective. it's an opportunity to sit here at the table with like minded countries with friendly countries. meanwhile, in japan, the g 7 countries will look to criticize china over over what it sees as decent on the coalition from aging over its move in taiwan and the south china sea. meanwhile, china will be having very important meetings here with this summit, this week of presidency to begin will be having finalize,
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meeting with each of the central asian leaders, has already had one with the project president got same jo model tobias where he remarks that relations between china has extend, has entered a goals in periods. ok, thank you so much. that's just a good washington for us. this young? well, the 5 central asian nations on the forefront of beijing circled balance and rhode initiative. it was launched in 2013 with the i'm of expanding china's economic and political influence. trade relations between these countries has been on the rise since the fall of the soviet union. but after russia's war and ukraine, the chinese investments in the region. scrolling to $17000000000.00, but gathering coincides with the g 7 summit in japan, but china is foreign ministry says it's not in competition with any 3rd policy. well, in the spring and bradley jobs and he is managing director at the oaks of society for central agent affairs, he joins us from washington. d. c. i thank you very much for being on al jazeera. i guess this will china coming out of carpet and trying to fix its economic muscle. i
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mean, how important down the centralizing countries to china and uh its plans to do this . so yeah, the summit that we're seeing and so yeah, there's really an opportunity for china to show that it's open for business and it's open for trade, central agent. and we can expect to say some of these are free agreements signed of this event. so of course, the company can amik with speaking central asia, as rather small in china, is wider trade relations. but there's a, an important strategic element to this and it has a continuous border with shouldn't jang china when it stabilizing a security presence and changing an economist region. we've been trying to itself trade with centralized is important for its development and so forth. stability as well, so essentially is replace quite a side role of size role in china as um, economic development. as jessica washington now correspondence, the mentioned
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a little while ago, the board and you crying. i mean, how is that affected the relationship? the warranty ukraine's had significant impact on central asia. i would say that in the long run, china is relations with central europe remains quite stable. i would say that the conflict has more an accelerated enough pre existing trends in the region. the largest trend of which is china pushing out russia is the dominant page amount in the region. for last, the regional governments are increasingly skeptical of russia, russia's aims, and the regions. of course, we have nationalist, russian officials have been speaking out of questioning the solver and take care of the state of nations such as context on this is of course, unsettling. and china has made efforts to reassure these nations of their sovereignty and the understands and recognizes that they're required for real integrity. just very briefly, you're in washington dc. how is the west viewing at the summit?
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the summits of course, being viewed within the lens of the wider the us china strategic competition. and of course, the g 7 summit. what we brought up as a par, allow for which to see this as a, as a contest and a great power politics. and of course, china, in recent months, has been releasing a flurry of initiative such as the global civilization initiative, where it's really position itself as a competitor or having a competitive model onto the traditional western normative values in central asia, which are core partners for china. for at least 3 decades this um for the shanghai cooperation organization, all the remote multilateral frameworks that china has been building the rich and as long as being an ally and i support or trying their work like minded regimes. and so of course, china will be looking to bolster that,
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that political support. they should be know it, that china has long held um, strategic interest in this region. and it will have its own particular objectives to pursue particular with regard to secure it and receiving and so on. assurances in the post taliban and tape or scott us down where central asia for these important security partners. okay, we're gonna have to leave it there. but thank you so much for your time at this, bradley chad, the managing director at the oaks. the society has central asian affairs. thank you . thank you. as the head of a quote, it was military has one says as false as will x fairly as protest turned violent prison and keep them or less so it has dissolved the national assembly, which was considering with the to impeach him on corruption charges. hello, sandra room. he gets, he has more from key to a drastic move from the president on the verge of being removed right wing to get more or less so this band to the aqua. there's parliament and called, or the elections stopping is impeachment process, and causing
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a serious political crisis in the country. in a while, the stand alone ecuador needs a new political and social practice for to allow it to escape from the serious political crisis. the country is involved and which i'm fortunately is getting was day by day. we need to move forward to a solution that can give hope to ecuadorian families for a future of wellbeing and stability. but actually, your position is accused last so of allowing a corrupt contract between estate company and a private business to go ahead. although he didn't nice the allegations, security forces were deployed outside the parliament hours before the president's announcement. the police and anti riot year has been buried k thing all the answering to the countries congress since the early hours of the wednesday. they're not letting anyone in that even lawmakers and as you can see on this side instead, there are all the employees workers that work inside the congress that also haven't
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been able to answer. and i've been here some of them since 5 am in the morning. what do you see on us, you'll not last invoked and never before use constitutional clause known as mutual . that the clause allows them to govern by decree and tail. fresh elections can be held by a process that could take up to 6 months. many in the country fear that the decision made by a very unpopular president could spark or with turn or violence mass protest, the rock, the country in 2022 over the cost of living. the heads of eck weather's military warrant that his forces will act firmly against any violence the decision of the president to dissolve the national assemblies based on optical 14 a to the constitution. it is therefore subject to a constitutional norm and must be fully incomplete. the respected whether is main opposition party said that while less is use of the mutual debt clause was illegal,
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they won't challenge it in court. if at the end that then you have to fold up, sort of them is that the president knows he was going to me was because we had the vote to remove him out of it. so in a cowardly men or he preferred to sign an unconstitutional degree, yet we believe this is an opportunity for the people to elect the government that will work for them. yeah, you know, for like the other parties did start a challenge in the courts and the country, spyware. full indigenous organization could. now you said it will mobilize against any of the cri you by the president they might reject, leaving ek, whether emma state of high political tension uncertainty allison the 50 and just keep a large number of police having to lift the vicinity of the residents of full upon cosigned, the prime minister and run con, after spending most of the day outside his house, the 17 year old veteran politician had said police were preparing to detain him again. con was arrested last week in connection with a corruption case. focused on supreme court ruled his arrest was illegal,
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the detention spiked violent protests across the country. i'll just here is a sound of and jeff had reports from outside them are on comes residence in the whole. another date of high political drama and progress on we are here as as a month, voc residents of full of prime minister inbound hon. who said that who treated rather that it might be of last week before he's taken into custody. it seems the situation is normal. now the security people have been telling us that the police had relocated. the engines is coming to words as i'm on fox. but now it opens the police on his boss has said that it has given him wrong fund 24 hours to give up what it calls terrorist, dozens of them hiding ins. yvonne buckley were involved in the vitamins which took place on may, the 9th, at the back side. there. he gets up and says that it wasn't its work as a who carried out the violence and the distance itself from the people who are rioting and burning public property in milledgeville installations and on concepts . there should be a tradition investigation and they are going to go to port to find who are the
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people who are instigated and who was the right to. it is also worth noting that a number of fucking sunday you can solve leaders, have been arrested after the court allowed them to come out of jail. they've been reinvested and re detained. and also a number of taken soft lead is have said that they have given up their party positions and they no longer want to be associated with in the policy which can be associated with the violence against the state and the ministry. the countries, politicians, the government, and john says that these people are going to be taken to task and they're no longer only going to be tried within 70 and chords, but also in military trials as well. so it's, it's been a day of high tension. it's come to an end and we're on hon in the next few hours of also being asked to appear before the nation, the comfortability. we are in the same place that he was sent to g earlier. and he's also announced a riley and a march that he is going to take out in the city of lahore as well. some of the job
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without the vera la, a great deal between you trained and russia has been extended for a for the 2 months. the agreement has allowed millions of tons of ukrainian crime to be safely shipped through blacks. the ports blockaded by the russian navy. russia has welcome to this extension of the day and pro could by the united nations into kia send them consider has more from a sample. carrying his 3rd 2000 pounds of corn, the ship could have been the last to leave ukrainian forts if russia hadn't agreed to extend a deal to allow the vital green deliveries. the fact brokered by the u. n and took it in his stomach last summer. allow safe export of cranium and russian for these through black. see to the world markets a joint coordination center with the representatives from the 3 countries and the u . n. was set up in a stumbles to oversee the shipments the importance of the black sea initiatives and the fellow memorandum of understanding between the land and the russian federation
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is clear. these agreements mets us for the global foot secuity us, you good idea and the russian products see the worlds. the initiative has been able to save shipment of about 13000000 tons of crops since july 2022 and help alleviate the global food crisis. aggravated by most goes invasion of ukraine. one of the world's leading grant exporters fills up, but as soon as it duration of the latest extension was about to end with the efforts of our country and the supports of russian ukrainian friends. it is agreed that the black sea great and car the will be extended for 2 months. so i go through most in a video is now say for 2 more months, but lack of coordination between ukraine and russia. plump, it's effective this. thank you. mobile. as there is a chance, nothing was but some deeds to help ensure global food, security, and festival to help the countries that meet at the most. and secondly,
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a fundamental assessments of the assemble agreements of july 20 to 2022 have not changed. and the distortions of the implementation should be corrected as quickly as possible. about cubic uses must go off the route, but interrupting exports inspections while most go maintains that hurdle. so these shipments have not been removed, despite the fact that their brains and fertilizers are immune from western sanctions. the green deal was extended once more after difficult talks between concerned parties. and after a rush i had to withdraw. but most goes refusal. a longer extension is an indication that the original agreement is still sold, elses 0 stumble democratic republic of congo is struggling to deal with more than $6000000.00 congolese who have their homes because of conflict and natural disasters. the united nation says it needs $2000000000.00 to help them, but only 25 percent of the budget has been miss catherine sort of
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a pulls from government in the east of the country. is more shelters out of comfort, displace people enough people. profits are under construction to ease a crowded area. yeah. the pro visual copy to coma. most of these people have fled from fighting between the armed group m 23. and the national army is nearly 1000000 qualities here. run away from the homes during the last you see it, but it can be as we flayed from my village. 6 months ago there was too much fighting people with dying. so we came to this camp. life is very hard. we don't have basic necessities. the united nation says the humanitarian crisis in democratic republic of congo is one of the most neglected in the world. thousands of people are leaving rough and complex. this one, they are leading from conflicts. they say they don't want to go back home because
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of the situation there is too dangerous on groups in the east and other areas have killed thousands and displaced many more. in reason, he is 8 agencies and the government also dealing with diseases and natural disasters. compounded by climate change, in fact, the numbers in the dfcs staggering because of the size of the country. this the size of the population. and so it does the highest number of food in 6 people in the work. one company is out, the fall is 40 and secure and it does the highest of the of the internally displaced people in of a certain number. it does over 6000000 people severely nourished, most of the children and defies. and this number does not move for many, many years. a landslide recently swept away villages in south cable providence. it was one of the was disasters in recent history. 400 people guide up to
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5000 are missing. the s, the solemn one shawn's badly made it out alive. she and has been now trying to get by was really fine. you said me. yeah me. it was raining heavily. we started to take the children into safety. i have 5 children and another on the way. i'm building temporary shelter until i figure out what to do. i'm way up with my the lies enjoying more than 6000000 internally displaced companies while also trying to do what they can to survive. catching sewing goma, easton, democratic republic of congo. the still ahead on al jazeera, a state of emergency is declared. the northern escalate is flooded slaves, different people did, and thousands more displaced. and the 1st time at the cannes film festival, a 3rd of the competing movies directed by female. so mike is
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the the, let's get going with your world's weather update. so nice a heavy along, we'll take this one off in buckets done. so in the north we've got active weather around as long as bought some relief for a garage in terms of that heat with the sea breeze. but it is sure human high temperatures, those through upper same province, which is what we would expect for this time of year, a lot going on in india. so let's break it down region by region to the northwest. these winds are picking up this sand in dust from the tar desert, bringing it as far as the capitol region. so new delhi, some hazy and dusty conditions, there are to be expected on thursday. but there's a day for now on friday because these winds of the baseband gall shumate lot of moisture, they're going to spark storms right across bond to the dash and for westbank all states in india. now if we go to indo china a strong,
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so peter out through thailand, that's going to allow the temperature in bangkok for example, to close in on 40 degrees, pulling up a lot of warm air from the south china sea. in glenn g. providence in southern china, so boiling up to 35 degrees, cooler air being kicked back in shanghai gloomy conditions here as well. that batch of what weather runs into kyushu and we've got some high heat through japan's main island of han shoot temperatures. 3637, not seen in about 30 years, but that weather will knock out the heat. as we head toward friday, ceasing to the journey of almost 10 years in which to shake commodore for translation and international understanding has become the most important translation award from to the arabic language in the world. the award announces that the nomination periods, the 2023 starts from the 1st of march to the 31st of july. applications are
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accepted through the awards official website at w w, w dot h t, a dot q a the, [000:00:00;00] the you're watching, you'll just hear a reminder about top stores. the seller, sean is president. choosing pink is hosting is summit to put the latest of 5 central asian nations for the 1st time that coincides with a g 7 may think of advanced economy, which is being held in japan. the head of it could, it was, military has one's best response. this will ex, certainly is protest to environment present html s. so it has does own the national assembly, which was considering with the,
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to impeach him on corruption charges. and a large number of police have now lifted sensi of the presidents of former puck hasanti prime minister and run tom. after spending most of the day outside his house, the 70 year old veteran politician had said police were preparing to detain him again. con was arrested last week in connection with a corruption case. in northern italy, at least 9 people have died in floods and thousands more have been displaced. sony okay, good reports is not a moment too soon. as the flood waters continue to rise in the town of chosen, a young child is saved just in time and time to do but to rescue work has a moment of hope amid the devastation. elsewhere in the town. as the water reached as high as the tops of buildings, coast guards managed to pull this mine to safety. the only means of escape to
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a small window in the roof. shanele been to grab to eagle mooney. 24 municipalities have been flooded. unfortunately, hold the rivers of amelia of ammonia, have overflowed their environments, causing flooding. as the torrential rain across the media at all, mine yet forced the slow and banks of 14 rivers to bust, flooding the surrounding areas, crossing off roads and railings. even in the regional capital, but on yeah. with streets and the city center were inundated with hardly any protection to keep the rushing waters of bay local may. is what people not to travel or approach areas close to rivers, and to keep away from basements and ground floor as a buildings. this is the 2nd time this month in this region where people have been killed as a result of extreme weather conditions. a stage of emergency has once again been
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declared with the interior minister mateo presented those the visiting to see the damage already so extensive that the immediate all mine yeah, growing pre at the image. the suckage was postponed to focus on rescue efforts in the region. the rise of extreme weather related events in a to be has been documented by the government's environment agency. in the past decade alone, record high temperatures and severe storms have risen 5 fold. yep, little has been done to mitigate the risks in a country that is already especially vulnerable to such climate events. so like i yeah, go, i'll just, sarah, human kind is closer than if it's a visiting mas, that's according to scientists from around the world who have gathered at assignments in washington dc. how does your test drive has more? the twenty's 33 is when the planets will align literally to give humans the easiest shot to fly over mars then fly home. that's when the red planet will be in
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position to give earthling astronaut, a gravitational assist shortening the round trip journey from 2 and a half years to one and a half. this will be an opportunity to send a crew to the facility of mars and bring them back. it would not be a landing mission because we don't think we would be able to build and test a land or by 2033. amanda mars landing would be much further down the road, and even a man to fly over for now is just talk. but here as a students from our summit in washington, the gathered space community is buzzing with hope that it will happen. it's a dream come true. i can't wait. since i was a little boy, i've always dreamed about working in space. i'm doing it now, and i can't wait to be a part of this great adventure now. so still lacks money and a government mandate from congress to officially green light, a humans tomorrow's mission. but the agency has been preparing for years. the so
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called trans at habitat in which mars down astronaut would travel, would likely look similar to a module of the international space station. and nasa is studying ways to improve life support systems. when a boarding, the mission is not an option. we have the baseline systems that we have been using on the international space station, but as with the entire mission, we will have to take fresh eyes on all of our systems and make sure that they play well together and they will work for crew that is autonomous and a very long way from home. nasa is arguments missions to the noun are also part of the prep work for mars. agricultural scientists, daniel tompkins will send a so called noun gardens ahead of nasa astronaut returning to the lunar surface in 2025. we're going to have the 1st butterfly, the 1st b is a 1st session. we're going to pack this for a rather complex eco system and really see how it, how it changes over time, and how it stabilizes. if the mon garden experiment works,
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maurice gardens will be next can lift off a star in while now, so appears to lead the race tomorrow is at the moment. china and space x also have their ambitions assigned to say whoever wins will take one home for human. kind. heidi, jo castro, alj a 0 washington. the cannes film festival this year on this women for the 1st time, a 3rd of the competing movies directed by female filmmakers. but his type ends with the controversial one is young. the body directed in for tried by french director my when and star and us active joining. did charlie angela sat down with you on a death in may with in the rep to as well can. so johnny debt and his new film is john dibiase, which opens the cannes film festival. the true tale of a walk in closet. women uses have beauty to climb the social ladder until she reaches king louis the 15th, and falls in love. cause
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a scandal in the court. it's the story of a free women, ignoring social codes. shelton, the palace of the sy, in opulent historical drama, sitting down without a 0 dep set of to, to high profile trials. the film came at a perfect time for him. and he could relate to the scrutiny and good by his character, from my experiences in that kind of living, that kind of complex life. i can only imagine for a king and we can the that his precious. i'm afraid, watch me. i'm afraid of shaving the morning because i have to look at myself. so i haven't seen the film yet. the many and from the have the film was simple. tenuously screened across hundreds of cinemas. there's somebody, it was a controversial choice, so it's only depth as on to see how does a issues with the know and also my, when the director has recently has expectations that goes to and you know,
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she herself, and she married the best, some very young and i wouldn't say she's necessarily engaged with seventies and people have called her and see me to my when, who spend 7 years working on the project. there was a number of power notes with her character to them was due just don't get home on sunday. i fell in love with john's done permanent historian, her trajectory. maybe because it was the last story that was highly criticized where she was insulted. maybe because i lived in a story to which was criticized. i wanted to defend this to defend the idea that love can exist between a powerful man and a woman as low as i shall cast it, revolts me, that even today we steals thing, that a woman who comes when i pull back around. if she's with the amount of power, is that for self interest, kind is often quoted controversy but festivals directive to have a 5 most as he has one rule in selecting film. did they demonstrate fee mas thinking freedom of speech?

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